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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
2025, 28:49 minutes, colour
tapecode 193.16
In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a work based on his experiences living with AIDS in Toronto, but he died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing it. For three decades, his work-in-progress was considered "long-lost" until it resurfaced at The ArQuives. In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi… ⊕
M U S I C commences with a waiting piano and a collage of chattering voices at a concert hall. The voices chatter consistently for four minutes and thirty three seconds. There is a montage of various musical images but no music. Then the voices stop and there is another definitely non-musical sound. There is another closing… ⊕
Mandaeans by Water is a micro-short documenting the voice of my grandmother who is one of the few remaining indigenous Iraqi-Mandaeans still practicing the religion today. Baptisms and water are a vital part of the community as they are associated with accessing heavenly realms and act as a bridge between the earth and the… ⊕
2008, 10:26 minutes, colour
tapecode 109.24
Premiering at the Tate Modern on May 08, 2008, Marnie's Handbag was commissioned for London Fashion Week. The video uses appropriated clips from over 50 films that span Hollywood cinema from 1935 to 2007. The "behavioural paradox" in Marnie's Handbag is centred on the signals and signs that are… ⊕
Meteor is a visually stunning piece that employs animated surrealist imagery to delve into the narrator's profound grief over losing her best friend within the repressive Islamic Republic of Iran. Meteor juxtaposes the international "women, life, freedom" protest movement with the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+… ⊕
